Psalms 74:20 · KJV
“Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.”
— Psalms 74:20
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude {of the wicked}: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psalms 74 — Context
Remember this, {that} the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and {that} the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude {of the wicked}: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Cross References
Psalms 106:45
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Genesis 17:7-8
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Hebrews 8:10
For this {is} the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: {put: Gr. give} {in: or, upon}
Psalms 89:28
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Jeremiah 33:20-26
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Psalms 89:34-36
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms 105:8
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word {which} he commanded to a thousand generations.
Ephesians 4:17-18
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,